when east meets girls desperate to learn and asks why is the system failing them on al-jazeera. venezuela's military pledges its allegiance to president nicolas maduro and accuses opposition leader of one point though of committing a coup. the time for debate is. never president just a legitimate and the u.s. calls for further international support to the venezuelan opposition at a special meeting of the organization of american states. the launching of desire on life from a headquarters in doha i'm dead you know also ahead felix just ahead he is sworn in

as the democratic republic of congo's a new president after an election fraud with delays and doubts. the u.s. senate prepares to vote on competing proposals to end the partial government shutdown. the former governor of jakarta is free after two years in prison for blasphemy why his supporters have been asked to tone down their celebrations. hello friend as well as military his pledge that's allegiance to president think a lot maduro a day after the opposition leader declared himself the interim president and won the support of the u.s. on latin american powers including brazil argentina. i learned a little even if. the people of venezuela what happened on wednesday was very dangerous to the integrity of the nation to our peace to our society to venezuelans

that it is taking place against institutions against democracy against our constitution and against our leader nicolas maduro the legitimate president of venezuela well the international community is split over who to support russia says any moves to remove president nicolas maduro from power are illegal turkey's also expressed support for the embattled leader calling him a brother and china is also standing behind him mexico also says it still recognizes maduro as president for now while bolivia i'm cuba say they remain committed allies canada has joined the united states in calling for a nicolas maduro to resign brazil is also backing one way though along with argentina chile cumbia amala the european union is calling on its nations to go so far the united kingdom and spain have come out with public support and washington's

again calling president illegitimate was that a special meeting of the organization off american states. because joining us covering that meeting for us out of washington d.c. what more was said at the oas meeting. well mike pompei appeared here a little less than an hour ago and was very forceful he appealed to the members of the oas to get behind interim president one guy joe he said the time for debate is done it's time for nicolas maduro to step aside pompei also said that immediately the united states would pledge twenty million dollars in humanitarian aid to venezuela to be used for food and medication he also said that the u.s. would be willing to step in and help rebuild the country now there was no mention from pompei o. about any kind of military intervention and intervention but he offered a very stern warning to madeira saying that he should he should not be representing

the peaceful process we also heard from several other states in the last hour colombia perel way brazil. peru all backing the administration of the interim president one guy though now we're hearing from nicaragua who is calling it a coup yesterday's action a coup and diane stand by for a moment because that we can listen to sound from about oas meeting and what one player had to say let's listen in the time for debate is time the regime of former president nicolas maduro is illegitimate his regime is morally bankrupt economically incompetent that it is profoundly corrupt. it is democratic to the core i repeat the regime of former president nicolas maduro is illegitimate we therefore consider all of its declarations an accurate and actions

illegitimate and invalid it a lot of these facts we call on venezuela the security forces to ensure the protection of interim president coitus physical integrity and his safety we've seen reports that a number of protesters were killed yesterday and that more than one hundred were arrested. so i reiterate our warning about any decision i read that elements of the mature regime to use violence to oppress press the peaceful democratic transition ok so that is what pompei was speaking it was saying just a short while ago at the oas meeting meanwhile we're hearing this now that the white house is apparently focused on disconnecting the venezuelan president maduro from his sources of revenue and this is according to trump's national security advisor john bolton. well and my comp aoe was very forceful in saying that. the united states is going to get behind it wants

to get behind this new interim government is pledging support for this new government and calling on other nations to do the same and we heard a lot of impassioned comments this morning from other countries like argentina and columbia saying that this is been a regime that has been the regime has been a repressive regime and that the time is over for this regime basically and it's time for all member nations in north america and south america to get behind interim president one. all right thank you for that update from washington. meanwhile moises naim is a former venezuela minister of trade and industry he says the success of one why though will depend on the loyalties of the armed forces this is good news for those of us who defend democracy in venezuela we have not had good news coming from venezuela for decades now all the good news i have all the news where about

five in that homicide rates hyperinflation and now we have the news that a new government that these has a democratic propensity see easy easy. and so that's great news and they are very moving in and i am very enthusiastic respect for what they have achieved. the new president of venezuela said that in order for this to move forward in a positive way he needs to support of the people they support of the international community and the support of the armed forces he has the support of the people we saw that yesterday he has this report of the international community there are numbers as you said bunch of countries more than fifty countries now no longer recognized as the legitimate president as well but do recall rice of long ago as the president of venezuela so he has the people he has the international

community and he said the third leg of this the third pillar of this thing has to be the armed forces and we don't know yet where they are forces what would they do the democratic republic of congo's new president has called for reconciliation during his inaugural speech his swearing in marked the first peaceful transfer of power since the country gained independence from belgium but she security's victory was marred by accusations that he struck a backroom deal with the outgoing president to deny victory to another opposition candidate martin for you. and me. we want to build a strong congress in its cause. diversities we will promote its development in peace and security a congo for each and every one everybody will have his or her own place if this stage of this democracy is the end of the conflict we also have to think of the new era the new destiny the beginning of our fight we want all the people to be

involved in the next few hours the u.s. senate will vote on two bills to try and end the partial government shutdown president donald trump triggered the shutdown by demanding five billion dollars to pay for a border war with mexico on wednesday trump was forced to postpone his annual state of the union address and the house speaker nancy pelosi barred him from delivering a speech in the chamber while parts of the government remain shut down mike hanna reports from washington d.c. on the one side the speaker of the house nancy pelosi on the other the president of the united states the country's two most powerful political figures locked in a bitter dispute over the annual state of the union address. last year the president addressed a joint session of congress and which republicans controlled both senate and house next into this gavel. but in the been busy lections of democrats seized control of the house of representatives nancy pelosi became house speaker and after the

shutdown began she withdrew the necessary invitation to the president to speak in this letter the president brushed aside her stated security concerns and told the house speaker he would be in congress on tuesday night to deliver the speech not so said nancy pelosi in a letter by return of messenger she would not allow the speech in the house chamber to go ahead and as you personally or nancy as a caller she doesn't want to hear. the truth and she doesn't want to hear more importantly the american people have the truth so we just found out that she's cancelled it i think that's a great blog which all the incredible country that we all love it's a great great horrible mark. the president was expected to use his address to once again press for a wall on the southern border and continues to insist he will veto any funding

legislation that does not allocate five point seven billion dollars for the project there is serious and justified concern that this president will check down the government any time he does not get his way legislatively that is why we must hold the line on this shutdown. but in a late night tweet the president conceded this particular argument saying he was not looking for an alternative venue but would hold his state of the union address cental after the partial government shutdown is over mike hanna al jazeera washington security forces have fired tear gas at student protesters in sudan's capital khartoum the university students were calling for president on modern pressure to step down protests have broken out in several sudanese cities following a call by trade unions for a mass rally there have been daily demonstrations against syria's thirty year rule still ahead right here on out there at the moment nobody knows what to get ready for confusion and fear leave people in britain reporting food and medicine in case

of a no deal burke said thailand prepares for its first democratic vote since a military coup five years ago. hello again welcome back to where across lavonne we are watching a weather system out here across parts of the mediterranean you can see all the clouds right there making their way towards the west so as we go from friday and into saturday we're going to be seeing an increase of rain as well as winds across much of that areas of iraq are really not looking too bad here on friday but then as we go towards saturday we're going to be seeing more clouds and more winds coming into play there cyprus you'll be seeing some winds as well down here towards the south jerusalem is going to be a partly cloudy day at nineteen and beirut twenty two degrees is going to be your

high well here across the gulf we're going to see our temps are starting to rise across much of the area so if we don't have really not looking too bad here on friday with twenty five degrees winds coming out of the south those southerly winds will continue as we make our way towards saturday so we're going to see their tempers rise as well over here towards it is going to be a partly cloudy day with twenty six degrees and here across parts of madagascar we are still watching very heavy rain a new cycle own is potentially going to develop in the mozambique channel so that's going to be some very heavy rain across much of that area of course we did see some flooding across much of the region as well down here towards durban it is going to be a cool day for you at twenty one but a very hot day for joe here's a bird with a temperature of thirty degrees there. each year childhood for an estimated fifteen million girls globally. before the age of eighteen. young girls compelled to marry after fleeing the war in syria

share their stories and talk to. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera event as well as military has pledged its allegiance to president nicolas maduro a day after the opposition leader declared himself the interim president and won the support of the u.s. ally and american powers including your brazil argentina colombia. u.s.

secretary of state my pump aoe has denounced venezuela's president nicolas maduro i did meeting of the organization of american states he called on venezuela security forces to back off as this leader. country's new leader. the democratic republic of congo's new president has called for reconsideration during his inaugural speech the opposition leader swearing in marks the first peaceful transfer of power since the country gained independence from belgium. well the un special rapporteur on executions sets ahead an investigation into the killing of soviet journalist. agnes will begin the inquiry in turkey next week and expects to present a report in june he was murdered in the saudi consulate in istanbul in october and saudi arabia says the trial of. some of the suspects is underway there off to riyadh refused to extradite them to turkey and chris been calling for an investor and turned international excuse me investigation into these deaths our diplomatic

editor james bass is joining us from davos to tell us what more you've learned about the un special rapporteur is investigation and her mandate going forward. well let me give you some context here there have been calls for many months now from human rights groups for an international panel of inquiry or commission of inquiry something to be set up by the un general assembly by the security council the human rights council to investigate the journalists murder this is not that but what this is is dr agnes has a job which is a special rapporteurs on judicial exit executions summary executions and arbitrary executions and she's using that existing mandate to make a trip to turkey so she is independent and it is an inquiry because she's going there to find out more and it's international because she is an international

expert on these issues it's also worth telling you that under her existing mandate from the human rights council whenever she or any other of these special rapporteurs go on a mission around the world they write a report to the human rights council so there will be a report delivered so it is definitely an interesting investigation by one of the un's experts but it's not that big panel of inquiry that some of been calling for having said all that the saudis i think need to be worried because this is a tenacious lawyer she's a professor at columbia university in new york she's originally from france she used to work for amnesty international and she's already said things about because case in fact she told me in november from everything that she'd seen the public information see she'd seen and the names of those that we mentioned as being involved her view were they were all of such a high position in the saudi system that she believed saudi arabia was almost

certainly criminally culpable all right james based thank you. the palestinian group hamas is refusing to accept aid money from qatar because of the conditions imposed on the funding by israel the qatari envoy. is in gaza a day after israel approved the donation so it was set to fund the civil service and support the gazan people israel had earlier blocked the payment that hamas says it refuses to be blackmailed its a prominent former british politician has been charged with two counts of attempted rape and nine of sexual assaults alex semin appeared in court after being arrested on wednesday former scottish first minister has also been charged with indecent assault breach of the peace salman stepped down as a leader as the leader of scotland's ruling party in august after the allegations were made he denies all the charges political parties in thailand have begun preparing for an election on march the twenty fourth which will be the first democratic vote since a military coup five years ago the date was finally confirmed on wednesday after

several delays allowing parties to declare candidates name their contenders for prime minister when he reports from bangkok. the leaders of thailand's political parties are in full stride towards an election. after so many delays the announcement of a date was welcomed at the headquarters of the largest party who a time i. could not get by it is time to set the future of our nation by voting for the right people to work for her country five years under military rule is longer than any democratic government we have had in the past eighty years by. time i was in power when the military staged a coup in two thousand and fourteen it was the second time the army had removed a government led by the shin of what clan group still had parties to every election win since two thousand and one i sublingual taksin and both former prime ministers

are in exile avoiding jail terms for corruption and negligence the leaders of this party are worried the campaign and the election itself won't be free and fair enough particularly concerned that the courts could be used against them something that had plenty of experience with two previous versions of the party would dissolved by the courts for electoral fraud now there's a next hanging over her thai again three leaders were charged with sedition for violating the military's ban on political activities last year a guilty verdict could result in dissolution again as a safety net a back up party has been registered on monday and eleven we must believe in the judicial system and in democracy are we concerned yes we are but there's nothing we can do about it what is best for now is to move forward and deliver our work most experts believe i will be the most popular party again but it may not get enough support to form a governing coalition and that could lead to more political instability after the election if the party that get more swarms in the house cannot form the government

. and it's going to be the other way around then people might find that. there are wars and not respect it whatever the outcome the ultimate power will remain with the military which will hand-pick the upper house they may also be an unelected prime minister. for the moment most thais have got what they've been asking for but there is still uncertain times ahead wayne hay al-jazeera bangkok. former jakarta governor. also known as a hawk has been released after serving two years in prison on blasphemy charges and twenty six in the first ethnic chinese and christian governor of the capital made comments about a verse in the koran which led to massive protests and has this report on a handful of supporters celebrating the former governess release in the latin. had asked people not to come to the prison to greet him instead actually quietly

left together with his son who posted this on this account. of. someone i have no words to describe how happy i am two years he was here in prison two years for something you strongly believe he was falsely accused. to noma better known as a hawk was a popular governor because of his efforts to clean up just kept us corrupt bureaucracy and improve infrastructure but after a video went viral in which he questioned the use of a qur'anic verse all went rapidly downhill for him the mass rallies by conservative groups left to his arrest and he lost his reelection bid his case was widely seen as a sign of increasing intolerance against minorities in indonesia supporters of former governor. urged to tone down celebrations for his release just three months to go to the elections the campaign team rather than show credo is concerned that remarks

by the outspoken former governor could endanger the practice reaction. so instead of attending welcome parties will go on vacation and accept speaking engagements abroad there are reports he wants to start his own television show that's likely to worry the government because opponents are watching while. also he got a lenient prison sentence we respect the fact that he went through the legal process. but if he starts doing the same thing again if he becomes noisy again i will leave it up to the people. has sat he doesn't want to be called by his chinese nickname a hawk any longer a sign you want to make a clean start in the latter he also said he's thankful for his time in prison because otherwise he would have become more arrogant the main question now is when the controversial former governor break his silence and return to politics step

last an al-jazeera check after north korea's leader kim jong un says he trusts u.s. president donald trump's approach as officials from both countries prepare for another summit robert bright has more from white shawn county in south korea. this latest statement from north korea follows a visit last week by north korea's chief negotiator kim yong child to washington during which he hand delivered a letter from kim jong un to president trump of the u.s. well now it appears president trump has sent a letter in return that's been hand delivered to kim of north korea the statement from the official north korean news agency says that chairman kim has welcomed this letter as being a sign of positive thinking on the part of the u.s. president and saying that the two countries are still very much working towards their shared goals in this forth coming summit between the two leaders exactly what those goals are though remain unspecified that according to critics of this whole

process has been the problem all along lacking substance nonetheless here in south korea these positive signs are largely welcomed by most people as being a building on the reconciliation of the past year especially in places like here very close to the d.m.z. the militarized border separating the two koreas where people do report a change in the level of tension. in the community ordinary people don't know but it's quite stressful for the soldiers at the border and even a minor alter cation cause a lot of tension. but the peace process we should approach it more thoughtfully and gradually the more level headed. people in south korea are hoping that a successful second summit between trump and kim especially if it leads to exemptions and some of the sanctions on north korea could pave the way for a long anticipated visit to south korea by kim jong un but kim has warned in

a new year statement that unless sanctions are ease that north korea he says may be forced to follow a different path. on the midst of breck's it uncertainty some people are beginning to stockpile basic necessities and assess it is like food and medicine lawrence lee reports that linda is taking no chances she bought her bricks at box a few weeks ago inside isn't a freeze dried food to last a month she isn't rich because of three hundred pounds nearly four hundred dollars but she has no regrets she supports leaving the european union as soon as possible remain supporters would say. you're a bit crazy you know whatever to stay in the european union and then you turn to the packet packets and things like this if it wasn't paid us i can see what they say and i can understand why we may have want to remain. in the long

term i want democracy back for my children and grandchildren i don't want to go down the route that we. were being dictated to how things need today. james supplies the bricks it boxes. he's traditionally done business with aid agencies dealing in disaster relief in recent weeks he's seen a big uptick in sales inside the u.k. a year's supply for a family costs more than twenty thousand dollars if we're going to know their scenario which is possibly going to cause a hiccup in in the customs system at the moment nobody knows what to get ready for lie in the customs guys so the company plans put into place properly and so there is always going to be a disruption for the least the first three to four weeks for us to try and sort out what they do and possibly longer if they need to or further infrastructure the inexorable logic of a no deal bricks its means fresh food which would normally come from places like

the dutch port of rotterdam getting stuck and rotting in lorries before it can reach supermarkets several have already said they too are stockpiling tins or nonperishable foods though they acknowledge they could run out in little over a week empty shelves and panic buying seem inevitable it's become common for politicians to support hard bricks it to say well so what if we can't have bananas and so mottos for a while the country's been through much worse what for some seems entirely pointless exercise a source of self-imposed blockade is for many others a small price to pay for getting rid of the malign influence of the european union . yorkshire voted leavin the bricks at referendum by a small margin this part of the country is known for its grit and determination if no deal is as bad as many fear if medicines do start to run out they may very well

need it's enormously al-jazeera in yorkshire a french carmaker renault whose name. as its new c.e.o. dominique sent out as its chairman after the resignation of carlos grown grown has been detained in japan since his arrest on suspicion of financial misconduct in november rono had been under pressure from the french government to remove go on in order to preserve its alliance with nissan. has more from paris. well this is a new chapter in rene's history off to forty years as its chair call those go now has resigned he remains in detention in japan now the board of french call may have appointed a new chairman don looks and now that he was in charge of the michelin group to make a tie is another huge french industrial giants now so now says that he has two main priorities going forward one is to restore calm to renault a company that's been shaken over the past two months by the go in case he also

says that he wants to try and secure alliance with mitsubishi motors and he said the two japanese car makers that make this a trio of automakers along with but it will be a challenging task because up until now it was callers go there was in charge of all three of those companies and he was the one that kept that alliance together. allover again the headlines on al-jazeera about as well as the military has plugs its allegiance to president nicolas maduro a day after the opposition leader declared himself the interim president and won the support of the u.s. and latin american powers and. brazil argentina colombia and the u.s. secretary of state my pump aoe has denounced maduro at a meeting of the organization of american states he called on venezuela's security forces to back opposition leader as the new president the democratic republic of

congo's new president has called for reconciliation during his inaugural speech his swearing in marked the first peaceful transfer of power since the country gained independence from belgium but just a kid his victory was marred by accusations that he struck a backroom deal with the outgoing president to deny victory to another opposition candidates martin. we want to believe. in its cultural diversity we will promote its development in peace and security. for each and every one everybody will have his or her own place if this stage of this democracy is the end of the conflict to have to think of the new era the new destiny the beginning of our fight we want all the people to be involved security forces have fired tear gas at student protesters in sudan's capital khartoum the university students were calling for president obama to step down protests have broken out in several

sudanese cities following a call by trade unions for a mass rally there have been daily demonstrations against this year's thirty year rule and rights groups accuse the government of violently cracking down on protesters they want special operator on executions is set to head an investigation into the killing of saudi journalist. maher will begin the inquiry in turkey next week and expects to present her report in june he was murdered in the saudi consulate in istanbul in october saudi arabia says the trial of some of that suspects is underway there after riyadh refused to extradite them to turkey and ankara's been calling for an international invasion vest a geisha into. those are the latest headlines on al-jazeera inside story with laura crile is coming up next to stay with us.

but his latest political and economic crisis turns into a power struggle to u.s. and regional countries put the support behind a man who declares himself but where does this leave president. this is inside story. welcome to the program. of venezuela's political crisis has escalated dramatically over the last few days the head of the opposition controlled national assembly one declares himself the interim president of the big.